Arifa Alieva

Affiliated media: reporter.info, Chief editor

Incident date: January 17, 2019

Attack type:

• Non-fatal attack / beating / injury / torture

Who attacked: Non-authorities

Source: Dosye.org

Location: Azerbaijan, Baku

Additional information:

The editor-in-chief of "reporter.info", Arifa Aliyeva, was threatened by the former chief executive of the Gedabek district, Ramiz Yediarov, and was insulted over her articles. She was asked to remove the content from the site she was running. The journalist received death threats. After that, she was physically attacked in front of the site's office.